readings...

Trying to finish up the Elizabeth George I'm reading. The last half is fine, but the first half was SO LONG. I'm speed reading past everything, and only reading the dialogue. Definitely not her best. And though I like all the cop characters, I don't like anyone else--and many of the scenes are told from their points of view.

I finished the French teen book I was reading--it was fun.

After the depressingness of the George book, I wanted something lighter. And I've started a mystery novel about a bunch of sheep trying to solve their shepherd's murder. I learned of it last year when a customer requested it.

When the sheep first meet to analyze the murder, the first business they have to decide upon is what would constitute the perfect shepherd--which they decide theirs' was not, but he always fed them, and always looked for their lost lambs, and besides which "he was our shepherd. No one had a right to stick a spade in him."

The perfect shepherd:

- never docked lamb's tails
- didn't keep a sheepdog
- provided good fodder, and plenty of it
- and who clothed himself entirely in the product of his own flock, for instance an all-in-one suit made of spun sheep's wool, which would look really good, almost as if he were a sheep himself.

I'm also wondering whether to buy the new Cathleen Schine book. I loved three of her books (Love Letter, Rameau's Niece, Evolution of Jane), and then hated one so much I couldn't finish it. I have a fourth one that I haven't started yet. I'll probably give in--it's cheap on kobo. The reviews are really split, but they were on the books I loved too, so I can't go by that.


In my internet travels, I also discovered that The Enchanted April is in the public domain, so I downloaded it for my kobo. Very exciting! I read it over 10 years ago and enjoyed it. Not in a "OMG BEST BOOK EVER" way, but in a quiet sort of now-I-have-fond-memories way.

Maybe I should have bought...

sushi slippers.

My Mary Janes (no I haven't bought a bong off etsy)

I bought these slippers off etsy. They're exactly the shade of gray I wanted, and Fernando (who knows his knitting/crocheting) says they're really well made.


But as I feared the heel part is shallow and slips off my heel. Well they're not exactly shallow, but they need to be stretched upwards to cover the heel.

The Mary Jane strap isn't in the right place to keep the heel on. So I wound it through the heel and up to the button, and that holds the heel on well.

And still looks cute. So this might work. If not, Fernando--of course--wants to take them from me. But I think we should order him his own pair in a bright fun colour, don't you agree?
Mind, I'm still yearning for these.

Of course Queen Hal is predictably disdainful:
"MY slippers are far superior, Mahmmy. ...
- they're softer than your slippers
- they don't fall apart when cleaned
- they never slip off
- they have leather pads on the bottom and are made of real fur, but not cruel to animals (riddle me that, so-called vegan!)
- and they come with Wolverine snickety-snicks. Can your slippers tear a man's face off? I thought not."